Re: MinGW port usable

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 30, 2007, 10:07 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701301105540.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <45BF0098.8FF978CE@eudaptics.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Johannes Sixt wrote:

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> Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> > 
> > > (*) The reason is that on Windows read() and write() cannot operate on
> > > descriptors created by socket(). A work-around is to implement a (threaded)
> > > proxy, but that's almost the same as if netcat were used as
> > > GIT_PROXY_COMMAND.
> > 
> > Can you do
> > 
> > #define read(fd, buffer, len) recv(fd, buffer, len, 0)
> > #define write(fd, buffer, len) send(fd, buffer, len, 0)
> > 
> > in the appropriate file?
> 
> I doubt that recv and send can operate on regular file descriptors, as
> opened by _pipe(), open(), can they?

They can't. Thus, you'd break at least inetd mode.

Of course, you really could start a thread which gets two pipe()d fds, and the proper socket, and just shuffles things back & forth. Not that hard.

Ciao, Dscho